Yesterday I compiled the 4.10.4 kernel, with the express purpose of enabling that option. However, from the description, is seems that it doesn't really do anything, only provides a fallback if special firmware is provided, and a kernel boot commandline option provided.

Also, it seems to only be required if the monitor is "broken" and the kernel is unable to read its edid.

The web is full of bad notes about my Intel poulsbo graphics.
But I am happy having found a practical solution for me this is adding the boot option drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=edid/1920x1080.bin.

Disadvantage is that the resolution cannot be changed after booted.
Using the pre-defined built-in EDIDs in the boot menu could be a fallback choice as last resort in case of unsolved "black screen" problem.

Downloaded, dd'd, booted ... failed (likely because a pre-used USB). Booted my normal desktop and used gparted to erase all partitions (during that process it highlighted that a GPT error existed and it prompted to fix that - which I accepted). Re dd'd the image ... and booted ... Pressed F12 (BIOS), selected the Toshiba Transmemory USB stick (16GB) and started fine - reasonably quickly (taking around a minute or so - didn't really time it as I went off to put the kettle on).

Grabbed a full screen snapshot, opened browser and posting this (far as I've got so far). A little (acceptably so) slow to load the browser, usb light flashing (past experience of that usb stick is it is slow anyway).

Was pleasantly surprised, as my hardware normally requires a kernel nomodeset cheat code being required otherwise tends to black screen on first time bootup's of new puppy versions (nvidia card and 32 inch TV as monitor).

Wow! Impressed. Need to re-run through the 'easy' guide again as it was a bit glazing (technical detail), but a nicely leveled amount of detail. BTW the "About root, spot and fido" link near the bottom is dead.

EDIT/UPDATE. After having set recompress using gzip instead of xz ... after a reboot the browser loaded a lot quicker (as indicated in the guide/article).

Pre-alpha !!! Understatement of the year. More like a release candidate It's running really well.

I installed mpv along with its dependencies and that's working fine. Changed that to be the default media player instead of vlc.

(Tip : in your home folder create a .mpv folder and in that .mpv folder create a input.conf file and add

Code:

# flip (mirror)
f vf add mirror
ctrl+f vf del mirror

to that file. Then during a movie that is mirrored you can press f to flip the display (ctrl-f to delete that filter). Also once you change default media player to mpv from vlc (menu, setup, default application chooser), then right click the play desktop icon, select edit item and add

Code:

--profile=pseudo-gui --

as the additional arguments).

Made a few snapshots and they're working great as well.

Wouldn't adjust the resolution for me via the main system. Manually editing xorg.conf worked ok for me however (I increased it from 1024x768 to 1280x768).

Question : How do you make backup's and potentially restore copies of the USB (is it ok to just dd image copy the entire thing and if so would it adjust if you copied it to a larger sized USB to account for the extra space) ?

#a good use for the "sh[0-9]" container is to compile source packages.
#for that download the appropriate "devx.sfs" file to match the current version of Easy.
#for example, put it into repository/easy-0.1.6
#then create an entry here, like this, with correct name of the devx sfs file:
#EC_LAYER_RO1='devx.sfs'

#Clear environment variables, except some such as TERM and DISPLAY:
EC_UNSHARE_ENV_VARS='false'
EC_LAYER_RO1=devx-0.2-xerus64.sfs

same here rutwolf (bottom of last page), I even tried putting it in different spots in case it had to be somewhere specific. Only spot I didn't put it was the first partition as Easy won't allow resizing of that partition to put it there.
We will have to await barry's response as i'm sure it's something simple.

EDIT1 Quick and late idea, wonder if we need to rename it as devx.sfs rather than the other way, or change the EC_LAYER_RO? to a higher number in case that one is already in use? It is ~pre-alpha?

Rox doesn't seem to support disabling the pinboard either. Or if you remove all desktop icons (I like a clean desktop, with the programs I use more often in the tray) ... and then restartX - the desktop icons all reappear again

I've temporary set a startup script to copy in a empty PuppyPin, but that's a crude workaround as if you hotplug in another USB its icon overlaps the others.

#a good use for the "sh[0-9]" container is to compile source packages.
#for that download the appropriate "devx.sfs" file to match the current version of Easy.
#for example, put it into repository/easy-0.1.6
#then create an entry here, like this, with correct name of the devx sfs file:
#EC_LAYER_RO1='devx.sfs'

#Clear environment variables, except some such as TERM and DISPLAY:
EC_UNSHARE_ENV_VARS='false'
EC_LAYER_RO1=devx-0.2-xerus64.sfs

However after a reboot, the likes of cc command aren't available.

Because the sfs files can be shared by all containers, the devx*.sfs has to be in /mnt/wkg/repository/easy-0.2

You can see this by looking at script /usr/local/easy_containers/start-container.

That's what i thought to start with Barry, before I tried others. But on reboot it's not loading the devx.sfs (under any of it's names, including altering the sh0 container to devx). The only way I could get it there and available was to open the devx in one window, a second window stepped up to / and copy the contents from the devx to the /, close the devx, check it's there and finally it stays there then through a reboot. Which means i'm installing it like a pet rather than loading it like a sfs.

by the way, I found another missing link, but i'm not near those boxes at present so I can't write it in now, will update this when i'm in my workshop next (most likely tomorrow evening).

First time poster, so be kind. I'm a looker, not a poster. Also, poor typer and old, almost 78.
Been playing with EasyLinux_0.2 since it was released. Every thing works as expected except 2 things for me. These haven't been mentioned by anyone yet so I'll give it a try.
1st CUPS is broken. The browser can not find localhost:631.
2nd Remaster Easy Linux. The dialog boxes are easy to follow and ever thing worked fine except the final q.sfs has 3 directories re-root, re-ect, and re-var incorrectly named. I tried to rename these with EDIT-SFS.pet but the resulting q.sfs was to large to fit in the image file. The origional modified q.sfs was 468M. The file edited with EDIT-SFS.pet ended up 579M, to large to fit in the image (said it run out of space). I then tried it manually with unsquashfs and mksquashfs with the -comp xz option. The result was size of 486M and this was larger than the origional but still fit into the image file. From here I was able to copy the image to a jump drive and the new remaster easylinux booted, configured the jump drive and worked just fine.

That's all I have. Waiting for Easy Linux that I can install to a HD partition.

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